wait, people complained that ffx was linear? not that it wasn't, but I've never heard people list its linearity as a particularly big problem. xiii's problem wasn't that it was linear, it's that it failed horribly at making players care about what happens.
funny, i have heard complaints about the linearity all the time, but never the one you made ever!
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I'm "kind of a big deal".
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